Facebook now allows attacks on immigrants and trans people, and posts like “Mexican immigrants are trash!” and “I’m a proud racist.”
  • corroded@lemmy.worldEnglish
    383·
    19 days ago

    Private entities have the right to decide what is or is not acceptable content on their platforms. Consumers also have the right to choose which services they want to use.

    I encourage everyone to stop using anything involved with Meta. I personally have a list of Meta domains blocked on my home network.

    If enough people did this, the problem would resolve itself.

    • unconsciousvoidling@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      19 days ago

      The people I know are too addicted to quit. They need to leave for another platform like people did with x to blue sky… that’s the only way I see people getting out of the meta world.

    • 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      11·
      18 days ago

      Private entities have the right to decide what is or is not acceptable content on their platforms

      Exactly. Not sure why people have this expectation that facebook is some kind of serious platform that should be held to some high journalistic standard

      It was a website for rating girls. It’s always been a joke website. People should be free to post whatever offensive and non-factual nonsense they want there (and its related subsidiaries)

      If your entire life is so deeply entwined with facebook that you cant leave, and you demand that they only allow nice content, that’s a YOU problem.

      This is not a defense of facebook. This is me saying facebook is shit, it’s ALWAYS been shit. Just walk away

  • aesthelete@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    19 days ago

    How about “billionaires are edible” or “Tech bros are welfare queens” or “Watch out for a-luigi”?

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.mlEnglish
    221·
    19 days ago

    Look on the bright side: they’re saying these things under their legal names. You’ll know who they are and where they live.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      19 days ago

      they’re saying these things under their legal names

      Facebook has plenty of promotional accounts, stale accounts hijacked by scammers, and straight up fake accounts. Hell, Meta’s been premiering entirely AI generated profiles.

      You could be getting N-bombed by a fully automated synthetic personality before too long.

      • queermunist she/her@lemmy.mlEnglish
        6·
        19 days ago

        True, but also, there will be plenty of morons that just openly reveal who they are on their Facebook timeline. That’s still useful.

        Although being called slurs by a chatbot will probably just make people stop using Facebook.

  • RagingRobot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    18 days ago

    All of these news agencies are against this rule? Yet they keep posting and putting the offensive sentence right in the headline lol. That’s only spreading the message